Mother embraces rescued teenager after six-day Australian bush search

Police footage shows rescuers reaching the missing camper in a Victorian ravine before flying him back to his mother.

Channel: ZDFheute Nachrichten ·

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On a rock in a steep ravine, a missing teenage camper is spotted by rescuers. The police footage follows the operation through to a very different scene: his mother embracing him beside the rescue helicopter.

Germany's ZDFheute Nachrichten, the news service of public broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, reports that the teenager had been missing for six days after failing to return from a camping trip in the Australian state of Victoria.

According to the report, he had fallen down a slope and was stranded without a mobile phone. He survived on a bag of chips and water from a creek while more than a hundred search personnel looked for him.

Police said a helicopter crew found him in a creek bed in difficult terrain. Rescuers descended from the aircraft to reach him, and the footage shows personnel assisting him on the ground.

He was then flown to the search command base, where his mother was waiting. The short report ends with their reunion.

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